To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEGet to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
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